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Hayden Paddon says, despite the obvious disappointment of crashing at this weekend’s Finnish World Rally Championship event, he is happy with his progress to date and is promising much more to come.

“Of course this wasn’t the result we wanted in Finland,” says Paddon, New Zealand’s only WRC competitor who was forced to retire early on Friday afternoon after crashing in stage six. Paddon and co-driver John Kennard had made an excellent start to the 30 July-2 August rally with consistently top five stage times on the four stages completed on Friday morning.

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Chris Pither has broken through for his maiden win of the 2015 season, claiming the final V8 Supercars Dunlop Series race at the Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint.

The kiwi drove to victory from pole position after he was promoted to the first grid spot when race two winner Cameron Waters was relegated 10 grid spots for a driving infringement in the previous race.

The win saw Pither close his Queensland Raceway campaign fourth for the round – a result he was happy with after a difficult start to the weekend – while he becomes the third race winner this season.

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John Kennard, Hayden Paddon’s co-driver since 2005, will mark two significant achievements when the pair of New Zealanders line-up for next week’s Rally Finland – it’s 30 years since Kennard’s first World Rally Championship event as a co-driver and it’s his 50th WRC start.

Nowadays a co-owner of a vineyard in New Zealand’s famed Marlborough wine region, Kennard says he started out in club and national events as a driver. He describes the opportunity to co-drive in the 1985 WRC Rally Finland as being thrown in the deep end.

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Organisers are pleased to announce that entries are now open for the 2015 edition of the Tanoa Paihia Hotel Rally of the North, which will run on September 12.

The Paihia-based event will take crews on a route effectively reversed from last year, heading north to Kaitaia in the morning before returning back to Paihia for the finish of the event at the end of the day. Competitors will take in close to 180km of special stages, making it one of the longest single day events in the country.

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New Zealand rally stars Hayden Paddon and John Kennard head to this week’s Neste Oil Rally Finland determined to keep doing what they’ve been doing in recent World Rally Championship events.

“We’ll go in with the same approach that we took to Poland, to try to be consistent and try to be fast,” Paddon says. “It’s a rally we’re familiar with, this being our sixth time there, but because it is so fast, the gaps are a lot closer and you’ve got to fight pretty hard for every 10th of a second. So we’ve got a few improvements from Poland to try and make.”

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Shanghai. Team Carrera Cup Asia proved once again why the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia has earned its reputation as one of the most competitive sportscar championships in the world, after Chris van der Drift stole the show with a brilliant performance in atrocious conditions on the unforgiving Spa-Francorchamps circuit, storming from fourth on the grid to an impressive second place finish in the 15-lap race.

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3 October 2015 will see two well known motorsport events combining to form what has been dubbed the Daybreaker Rally Wairarapa. Starting in the Manawatu village of Pohangina the competitors will traverse 4 special stages before heading to the northern Wairarapa and undertaking a further 4 special stages between Eketahuna and Masterton.

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